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AIR Music Technology release a classic-leaning multi-FX plugin that melds vintage warmth with modern dexterity
AIR Music Technology has announced the release of Sprite, a multi-effects plugin that’s said to be inspired by the “studio hardware staples” of the ’80s and ’90s.
Before software did (almost) everything, producers relied on chunky, rackmount multi-effects processors like the Eventide H3000 to apply effects like reverb, chorus and delay. Sprite is reportedly a ‘modern take’ on machines like these, though AIR tells us that it goes a step further and ‘does things not possible in a hardware unit’. (We’re not told what, however.)
Sprite packs an array of effects under its virtual hood. You’ll find all of the usual suspects inside, including a reverb with eight room characters, a BPM-syncable stereo delay and a comprehensive distortion section with nine distinct distortion models. There’s a raft of modulation options, offering chorus, phaser, flanger,
